February 1, 1972. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Academy
of Music. Performed with Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company: first performance of 52/3
to Landrover (Barnes, C. 1972).

February 6, 1972 or earlier. Brooklyn, New York,
Brooklyn Academy of Music. Performed with Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce
Cunningham: How to Pass, Kick, Fall, and
Run and Event # 26 (Kisselgoff
1972).

April 1972. Albany, New York, State University of New
York, Electronic Music Studio. Composed Bird
Cage (completed later that month in New York) and produced tapes, assisted
by Joel Chadabe; performed (Chadabe 1972; Chadabe 1975, 173; Chadabe 1983).

April 1972. Wrote How
the Piano Came to Be Prepared.

April 3-May 4, 1972. Filmed by Hans G Helms for Bird Cage/73'20.958" for a Composer.

April 7, 1972. New York. Interviewed by Hans G Helms
(recordings).

April 10, 1972. New York. Attended memorial service
for Stefan Wolpe and was, with Hilda Wolpe, Milton Babbitt, and Elliott Carter,
among those who spoke (In Memoriam S. W.).

April 13, 1972. San Francisco, California, San Francisco
Museum of Art. San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble performed
HPSCHD; Cage presumably not in
attendance (Commanday 1972).

April 14, 1972. Letter to Scott Kenney (Cage
1987-1988d).

April 14-15, 1972. San Francisco, California, Project
Artaud. San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble performed HPSCHD; Cage presumably not in
attendance.

April 16, 1972. Letter to Boudewijn Buckinx, in which Cage
described the essence of the first version of Variations VIII as Òmachines themselves without anything given to
them (e.g. tape machines without tapes).Ó The work was not written down until
1976 (Buckinx 1972, 170).

June 1972. Rotterdam. Dutch National Ballet first
performed Twilight, choreographed by
Hans van Manen on The Perlious Night;
performed March 2, 1973, Stratford-upon-Avon, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, by the
Royal Ballet (About the House 1973).

September 1972. Venice, Biennale di Venezia, 35th
International Festival of Contemporary Music. Performed with Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company (two performances at the Teatro La Fenice, one at a theater
in Mestre, and one on the Piazza San Marco, Event);
participated in panel discussion (Kagel 1975, 28; New Yorker 1973; Vaughan 1997, 186).

September 1972. Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art and
Atelier 212, Theatre, BITEF Festival. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company, among other pieces Canfield,
which won the grand prize of the BITEF Festival (Vaughan 1997, 186).

November 3, 1972. New York, New York University, Loeb
Student Center (Washington Square), Prospective Encounters, presented by the
New York Philharmonic. Michael Tilson Thomas conducted and moderated program
(shared with David Del Tredici) including Credo
in Us, Quartet from She Is Asleep,
performed by Gordon Gottlieb, Richard Fitz, Howard Van Hyning, Raymond Des
Roches with Paul Jacobs (piano), and selections from Sonatas and Interludes (Tilson Thomas); Cage and Del Tredici in
attendance; question periods (Ericson 1972b; Kerner 1972).

Prior to January 21, 1973. New York. Interviewed for The New Yorker (New Yorker 1973).

January 21, 1973 (afternoon). New York, Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall (Broadway and 66th Street), New and
Newer Music Series, A John Cage Retrospective in observance of his sixtieth
birthday year: The Ensemble, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, performed 27'10.554" for a Percussionist (Roy
Pennington, Gordon Gottlieb), Cheap
Imitation (orchestra coached by Cage, led by Davies from the piano), Concert for Piano and Orchestra (Max
Lifchitz, piano), Music for Wind
Instruments; Cage probably in attendance; interviewed previously by Jan
Hodenfield (Henahan 1973a; Hodenfield 1973; Johnson, Tom 1973a; New York Times 1973; New Yorker 1973; Schonberg 1973).

February 6-7, 1973. Fredonia, New York, State
University College at Fredonia, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center. Performed
with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company, Events (beginning of winter
tour).

February 9-10, 1973 (evening). Stony Brook, New York,
State University of New York, University Gymnasium. Residency. Performed with
David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company, Gymnasium Event (February
10).

February 15-16, 1973. Montral, Qubec, Universit de
Montral, Centre communautaire, Musialogues, 2 Journes avec John Cage.
LÕAtelier-laboratoire de la Facult de musique, directed by Robert Lonard,
performed Amores, She Is Asleep, Suite for Toy Piano, and The
Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs; ÔPeut-on connatre John Cage?Õ: public
conversation with Maryvonne Kendergi; question period (February 15, evening,
2332 Edouard-Motpetit); Musialogue Midi with students of the faculty
(February 16, afternoon, 2375 Ct Ste. Catherine); film du service de la
recherche de lÕORTF; Mureau,
collective performance with students of the faculty (February 16, evening, 2332
Edouard-Motpetit) (Rivest 1997b;
Thriault, J. 1973).

February 18, 1973. Princeton, New Jersey, Mc Carter
Theatre. Performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company, Event.

April 17-May 12, 1973. New York, Willard Gallery (29 East
72nd Street). Exhibition of the work of Richard Lippold. For the invitation of
the vernissage Cage wrote Grand Street
and Monroe (for R.L. Twenty Years After).

April 19-21, 1973. Saranac Lake, New York, North Country
Community College. Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company;
performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company, Event #76 (April
21, Saranac Lake High School).

April 23-25, 1973. Plattsburgh, New York, State University
of New York College. Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company;
performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company, Gymnasium Event #77
(April 25).

November or December 1973. Rome. Marcello Panni and
others gave first performance of Exercise (Cage/Bosseur 1973, 31).

December 7-8, 1973. New York, Kitchen (formerly in the
old Broadway Central Hotel, as part of the Mercer Arts Center, now at the
second floor of the old LoGiudiuce Building at the corner of Wooster and Broome
Streets to 59 Wooster Street and Broome Street), Two Evenings of John Cage. Jan
Coward, Don Gillespie, Garrett List, Phill Niblock, Roy Pennington, radios; Jim
Burton, Judith Sherman, newsreaders, gave first performance of Speech 1955 (December 8); further
performances by Philip Corner, Jon Deak, Linda Quan, Connie Beckley, Jan
Coward, Joel Chadabe (Jarvis and Landy 1973; Johnson, Tom 1973b; Rockwell
1973a).

Late December 1973. London and Manchester. The London
Sinfonietta, Hans Zender conducting from the piano, performed Cheap Imitation, as well as music by
Earle Brown, and Elliott Carter (Schiffer 1974).

1974. August or earlier. New York, Young MenÕs Hebrew
Association. Presented The Future of
Music (Cage 1979c, 177).

January 29, 1974. New York, Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall. Marie-Franoise Bucquet performed Book IV
from Music of Changes and
compositions by Erik Satie, Charles Ives, and Tru Takemitsu.

February 23, 1974. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University,
Center for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, An Evening with John Cage.
Performed from Empty Words (possibly
repeated on February 24) and, with Alvin Lucier and Richard Winslow, conducted
student ensemble in Etcetera; on
exhibit in the lobby Not Wanting to Say
Anything about Marcel (Wesleyan
1993).

April 3-6, 1974. Portland, Oregon, Portland Art
Museum, John Cage in Portland, presented by Portland State University Cultural
Affairs Board and the Portland Art Museum. Attended (perhaps only April 4-6);
Robert Moran performed Sixty-two
Mesostics re Merce Cunningham (April 3); performed from Empty Words (April 5); Joseph Kubera
performed Sonatas and Interludes;
with Robert Moran and Eric Funk, conducted Etcetera,
performed by Portland State University New Music Ensemble (April 6); gave first
reading of The Future of Music [text]
(Christensen, L. K. 1974).

July 1974 or earlier. New York, St PaulÕs Chapel.
Karen Phillips, viola, and the Gregg Smith Singers performed Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel, as well as music by Bruno
Maderna, Betsy Jolas, John Biggs, Edward Najera, William Bland, and Dale
Jergensen; Phillips performed Dream
(viola and vibraphone) (Shawn 1974).

July 21, 1974. London, Young Vic Theatre (66 The Cut),
organized by the London Music Digest. Richard Bernas performed Sonatas and Interludes; John Tilbury
performed Music of Changes (Griffiths
1974b).

July-August 1974. Stony Point, New York and New York.
Composed Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau)
and 23 Parts.

August 6, 1974. Stony Point, New York: David Behrman
made tape for Score (40 Drawings by
Thoreau) and 23 Parts.

Prior to March 1975. International Contemporary Music
Exchange, directed by Igor Butekoff, selected Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra for list of
compositions representing the United States in its worldwide exchange of the
best contemporary orchestral music (Pan Pipes 1975).

March 8, 1975. Detroit, Michigan. Performed with Merce
Cunningham: first performance of Child of
Tree to Solo.

March 14, 1975. Chicago, Illinois, Ida Noyes Gym,
presented by the Chicago Dance Foundation and the University of Chicago
Extension. Performed with David Behrman, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company: Event #126 (comprised
of sections from Loops, Landrover and Scramble).

May 6, 1975. New York, Fordham University at Lincoln
Center, Faculty Lounge, Common Ground Festival (May 5-10). Performed from Empty Words, with slides (early evening)
(Flory 1975; New York Times
1975).

May 7, 1975. New York, Saint MarkÕs Church. Performed
Part IV of Empty Words, with slides;
question period afterwards (Flory 1975).

June 2-6, 1975. Buffalo, New York, State University of
New York: June in Buffalo, ComposerÕs Workshop. Invited by Morton Feldman,
participated; lectured in the afternoons; attended rehearsals and performances
in the evenings; supervised performance of Etcetera;
S.E.M. Ensemble gave a controversial performance of Song Books; at a plenary session the day after the performance Cage
distanced himself from the performance (Gann 1988c; Hayman, R.I.P. 1975c).

September 1975. New York. Interviewed by Walter
Zimmermann (Cage/Zimmermann 1976).

September 1975. Stony Point, New York. Commissioned by
Richard Coulter of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in observance of the
Bicentennial of the United States of America, composed Lecture on the Weather, in collaboration with Maryanne Amacher
(1938-2009) and Luis Frangella (Cage 1979c, 3).

September 1975. New York. Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in observance of
the Bi-Centennial of the United States of America, began Renga (until April 1976) (Anonymous
1975JOHN-PETERS; Cage 1979c, 184; Cage 1975UNTITLED-PETERS; Time 1975).

November 18, 1975. San Jose, California, San Jose
State University, Concert Hall, Distinguished American Composer Series.
Performed with Grete Sultan: from part III of Empty Words; from Etudes
Australes (I-VIII, two performances, Sultan, first consecutive performance
of I-VIII); question period.

November 21-22, 1975. San Jose, California, San Jose
Center for the Performing Arts. Invited by Lou Harrison, performed with James
Tenney: conducted Atlas Eclipticalis,
performed by the San Jose Symphony Orchestra, simultaneously with Winter Music (Tenney); George Cleve
conducted the orchestra in RavelÕs Concerto in D for the left hand, Michel
Block, pianist, and in Brahms, Symphony No. 4 (Brown, Gloria 1975; Burmister
1975; Clark, S. R. 1975; Morgan, M. 1975; Tircuit 1975).

November 24, 1975. Fresno, California State
University, Music Recital Hall, organized by Department of Music and Student
Association. Performed from Part III of Empty
Words, Grete Sultan performed Etudes
Australes 1-8 twice.

March 9-April 1, 1976. Perth. Performed with Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company.

March 15-20, 1976. Sydney, New South Wales, Opera
House, Opera Theatre. Performed with David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company: Christian Wolff, Music for Merce Cunningham to Rune
(Cage and Tudor, pianos); David Behrman, Voice
with Melody-Driven Electronics to Rebus,
Child of Tree to Solo (Cage); Gordon Mumma, Telepos
to TV Rerun (March 15-17); Maryanne
Amacher, Remainder to Torse (Tudor?); La Monte Young, Two Sounds to Winterbranch; David Tudor, Toneburst
to Sounddance; Third Week of March to Signals
(Cage, Kosugi, Tudor) (March 18-20); interviewed by Jill Sykes (Sykes 1976).

March 28, 1976 or slightly earlier. Interviewed by
William Weber (Weber, W. 1976b).

March 1976. Adelaide. Performed with Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company.

March 22, 1976. Adelaide, Festival Theatre, Adelaide
Festival of Arts. Performed Music for
Marcel Duchamp, from Empty Words,
Part III [perhaps replaced by preface from Lecture
on the Weather], and from Cheap
Imitation.

April 1976. Kyoto. Performed with Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 198).

April 1976. Tokyo. Performed with Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 198).

April 1976. Sapporo. Performed with Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 198).

April 13, 1976. New York, BloomingdaleÕs: preview
benefit party for the New York Philharmonic, opening the exhibition "Red,
White, and BloomingdaleÕs", of model rooms, one of them dedicated to Cage;
Cage not in attendance (Klemesrud 1976).

April 15, 1976. New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music.
With Alan Rich, Tom Johnson and others in panel preliminary judging new music
ensembles in Competition of the Combos.

Prior to July 15, 1976. Chicago. Recipient, with 121
other composers, lyricists and performers, of the National Music Award.
The awards were inaugurated by the American Music Conference, sponsored by the
National Association of Music Merchants. Living recipients were honored at a
dinner presentation at the Conrad Hilton Hotel; CageÕs attendance uncertain.

July 27, 1976. New York. Attended court session as a
result of which John Lennon received his Ôgreen cardÕ; Cage had been active in
supporting LennonÕs attempts to get a residence permit (Melody Maker 1980).

Around October 1976. New York, Carl Solway Gallery (139 Spring).
Exhibition of Not Wanting to Say Anything
about Marcel (Art News 1976).

October 8-9, 1976. Valencia, California Institute of
the Arts, School of Music, Modulor Theater, Two Evenings of New Music,
organized by Music West. With Morton Feldman and Lou Harrison attended
performances of his music performed by CalArts faculty/student soloists and
contemporary ensembles in program shared with music by James Fulkerson, Mel
Powell, Morton Feldman, Sylvano Bussotti, Elliott Carter, Dorrance Stalvey, and
Morton Subotnick: Double Music, First Construction (in Metal) (William
Kraft, conductor); Winter Music
(fifteen pianos) with ÒSolo for Voice 45Ó from Song Books (Joan La Barbara) (Main Gallery) (Weber, W.
1976a).

October 16, 1976. Buffalo, New York, State University
of New York, Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Meet the Composer. Performed
with Maryanne Amacher.

October 23, 1976. New York, Town Hall (123 West 43rd
Street, afternoon). Performed from Part III of Empty Words; Grete Sultan performed Etudes Australes, nos. 1-11, nine of which were New York premieres
(Henahan 1976a; Horowitz 1976; Pavlakis 1976).

October 27, 1976. Buffalo, New York, State University
of New York, Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Meet the Composer.
Performed with Maryanne Amacher.

October 27, 1976. Boston, Massachusetts, Symphony
Hall, World Music Days 1976 of the International Society for Contemporary
Music. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor, and the New England
Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke DeVaron, conductor, performed Renga with Apartment House 1776 in shared program with music by Nikos
Mamangakis and Seymour Shifrin; CageÕs attendance uncertain (Carlin 1977;
Henahan 1976b).

November 8-11, 1976. Nashville, Tennessee. Presumably
participated with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the
performances for the TV-film Event for
Television; performed Branches (Cunningham
1982b, 184; Vaughan 1997, 198-199).

March 20, 1977. Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
University of North Carolina, Hill Hall, Fine Arts Festival (also presented by
the departments of Fine Arts). Performed from Part III of Empty Words, assisted by Jim Hackman, slide projector; Grete Sultan
performed Etudes Australes (I-VIII
and IX-XIII) (afternoon).

March 25-26, 1977. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse
University, presented by Society for New Music. Performed with Grete Sultan:
from Empty Words (part three); Sultan
performed from Etudes Australes
(I-VIII and IX-XIII) (March 25, evening, Crouse Auditorium); music by and
conversations with Cage (March 26, Grant Auditorium, afternoon).

April 27, 1977 (8 pm). River Falls, Wisconsin,
University of Wisconsin, Kleinpell Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall, presented
by Fine Arts Festival and Music Department. Performed Cheap Imitation (first movement) as part of The Music of John Cage:
featuring performances of Music for Wind
Instruments, Credo in Us, Music for Marcel Duchamp, Nocturne, Water Music, Variations III,
as well as Quartet I from Quartets I, V
and VI for concert band and twelve amplified voices, first performance,
given by the University of Wisconsin ­- River Falls Chamber Band; Sandy
Cross, Colleen Devine, Kent Fenske, Carol Gillen, Steve Klemaier, Faith Long,
Daniel Masterman, Mike Miller, Lonny Palmer, Roxanne Stouffer, Mary Helen
Waldo, Mark Willink, voices; W. Larry Brentzel, conductor; reception in CageÕs
honor following the concert.

Prior to April 28, 1977. New York, Pleiades Gallery,
Time and Space Concepts in in Music and Visual Art. Participated in panel
discussion with Merce Cunningham, Richard Kostelanetz, and Nam June Paik,
moderated by Dore Ashton, introduced by Marilyn Belford (Cage et al./Ashton
1980).

May 12, 1977. New York, Lincon Center. Attended Pierre
BoulezÕs farewell concert with the New York Philharmonic and reception
afterwards.

Late May-Early June 1977. Vienna, Festwochen. Merce
Cunningham Dance Company gave four repertory performances and an Event; CageÕs participation uncertain;
at this festival, also performance of The
Perilous Night to Hans van Manen, Twilight
(R.E. 1977; Vaughan 1997, 202).

September 1977 or earlier. Fort Lauderdale, Miami,
Broward Community College, Lecture Hall. During two-day residence, rehearsed Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts
with students; next day performed from Part III of Empty Words and Music for
Marcel Duchamp (Spitzer 1977).

October 1, 1977. Toronto, Music Gallery, New Music
Concerts, Seventh Season, third annual International Music Day. Performed
excerpts from Apartment House 1776,
taped by Peter Anson and played back on sixteen tracks afterwards (afternoon);
attended 65th Birthday Party Concert of his music: Amores, Atlas Eclipticalis
with Winter Music and Cartridge Music, Five Songs for Contralto, Score
(40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, Song
Books, The Wonderful Widow of
Eighteen Springs (evening, University of Toronto, Edward Johnson Building,
Walter Hall); presumably during this visit interviewed by Dorothy DeVal (Culver
1978; DeVal 1978; Rapoport 1977).

October 4, 1977. Chicago, Illinois, Museum of
Contemporary Art. Performed Writing for
the Second Time through Finnegans Wakem (possibly first performance);
question period; interviewed by Art Lange (Cage/Lange 1978; Lange 1977a; Lange
1977b).

Prior to October 6, 1977. Composed 49
Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (second version).

October 7, 1977. Hartford, Connecticut, Real Art Ways.
Performed from Empty Words (announced
as first performance, perhaps of Part III) (8:30 pm); at 11 pm, gave talk at
the Hartford Art School; at 7:30, a half-hour program on Cage was broadcast on
CPTV (Gordon, E. 1977).

October 8, 1977. New York, Carnegie Recital Hall.
Attended recital of Seymour Barab; program included 1'18" for a String Player.

November 2, 1977. New York, Carnegie Hall. Center of the
Creative and Performing Arts performed Credo
in Us in shared program with music by Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, and
Giacinto Scelsi (Hughes, A. 1977).

November 4, 1977. New York, New School for Social
Research. Center of the Creative and Performing Arts performed Credo in Us in shared program with music
by Robert Dick, Christian Wolff, Howard Skempton, Jacob Druckman, John Newell,
and Giacinto Scelsi (Johnson, Tom 1977).

November 22, 1977. New York. Composed 49
Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (first version).

November 27, 1977. Washington, D.C., Two Nights of New
Music (November 25-27). Gave workshop announced as "Silence," in
program with Dave Holland, Leo Smith, Phillip Wilson, Anthony Braxton
(afternoon, WPA, 1227 G Street, NW); performed in program shared with Steve
Reich and Musicians, World Saxophone Quartet, and Anthony Braxton Quartet
(evening, DAR Constitution Hall).

Late November or early December 1977. Paris, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Grande Salle, Passage du XXe sicle, IIe partie. Presented by
Gerald Bennett, Jrg Wyttenbach, piano, and Siegfried Kutterer, percussion,
performed Variations V, as well as
music by Vinko Globokar and Mauricio Kagel; Cage possibly in attendance.

December 7-10, 1977. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn
College Student Center (Campus Road and East 27th Street), organized by the
Institute for Studies in American Music, The Phonograph and Our Musical
Life.
Charles Hamm, H. Wiley Hitchcock and others gave first performance of Address with Cassette (December 7, Whitman Auditorium); Cage not in attendance
(Hamm et al. 1980; Rushefsky 1977a; Rushefsky 1977b).

February 11, 1978. Tampa, Florida, University of South
Florida. Performed with Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky: Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (afternoon);
evening concert by Sultan from Etudes
Australes and Zukofsky, Cheap
Imitation [violin] attended by Cage (Theater); interviewed by Bruce Jones
previously (Jones, B. 1978).

April 10, 1978 (evening). New York, New York
University, Loeb Student Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (566 LaGuardia
Place), presented by the New Music Showcase of the New York University Program
Board, Benefit Concert for Harvestworks Inc. and Public Access Synthesizer
Studio. Performed with David Tudor; gave first performance of A Dip in the Lake (voice and four
microphones); what Tudor performed is unknown (Johnson, Tom 1978a; Lindahl
1978).

June 1-2, 1978. Chicago, Illinois, Orchestra Hall.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Henry Mazer conducting, with Chief Swift Eagle,
performed Renga with Apartment House 1776, in shared program
with music by Karlins and Berio (Sinfonia);
Cage in attendance on June 1 and presumably on June 2 as well (Lange 1978; Marsh
1978; Von
Rhein 1978a; Von Rhein 1978b). Hereafter only ÔcommissionÕ performances
of Renga with Apartment House 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

October 12, 1978 (evening). Buffalo, New York, State
University of New York, Woldman Theatre, 112 Norton Hall, Amherst Campus,
symposium The University and the Arts: Are They Compatible?, presented by the
Office of Cultural Affairs. Participated in panel with Robert Buck, Robert
Creeley, Merce Cunningham and Morton Feldman, moderated by Esther Swartz (Howe
1978; Reporter 1978).

January 1, 1979. New York, Entermedia Theater, St.
MarkÕs Church New YearÕs Benefit: read from Indeterminacy:
New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music (Giorno Poetry
Systems Records GPS 018 [recording]).

Early February 1979. New York. Moved from Bank Street
to West 18th Street and Sixth Avenue (Cage/Anonymous 1993a, 111-112; Silverman,
K. 2010, 309).

February 1, 1979. New York, Whitney Museum of American
Art (Madison Avenue at 75th Street), ComposersÕ Showcase. Performed two
different selections from Part IV of Empty
Words (two performances, 7:00 and 9:30 pm).

February 18, 1979 (afternoon). Jamaica, New York, York
College, Hillside Center Auditorium (150-91 87th Road). Guest composer at New
Music Consort concert; First Construction
(in Metal) performed, as well as music by David Schiff, Arnold Schoenberg,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Maurice Wright.

March 1979 [possibly confused with March 27, 1983].
Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, presented by
Vancouver New Music Society. Possibly performed Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (Pich 1997).

May 10-11 [announced, eventually presumably May
11-12], 1979. Bordeaux, Grand-Thtre, Mai Musical de Bordeaux (May 4-20).
Performed with Martin Kalve, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham Dance Company,
music by Maryanne Amacher to Torse,
David Tudor, Weatherings to Exchange; Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame (May 10); music by Martin
Kalve to Fractions; Letter to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously Received to Tango; David Tudor, Toneburst to Sounddance,
and unidentified music to Changing Steps
Et Cetera.

June 2-3, 1979. The Hague, Nederlands Congresgebouw,
Holland Festival. Performed with Martin Kalve, David Tudor, and Merce
Cunningham Dance Company: Cartridge Music
to Changing Steps Et Cetera; Letter to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously Received to Tango (alone); First Week in June; Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame.

July 19, 1979. Durham, North Carolina, American Dance
Festival. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company gave first performance of Yasunao
Tone, Geography and Music to Roadrunners; CageÕs participation
unlikely.

Early August 1979. Lewiston, New York, Artpark. Merce
Cunningham Dance Company performed; Cage presumably did not participate
(Vaughan 1997, 209).

October 30-31, November 1, 1979. Oakland Symphony
performed The Seasons. Cage
presumably not in attendance (Commanday 1979).

November 2, 1979. Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Musik
der Zeit. Grupo de accin instrumental performed ÒTake It Easy but Take It,Ó a
musical-scenic collage on John CageÕs work; Cage presumably not in attendance.

November 4, 1979. Wrote The Beginning of a Connection between Satie and Thoreau (text)
(Cage 1980a).

November 8, 1979-January 26, 1980. New York, Drawing
Center (137 Greene Street), ÒMusical Manuscripts,Ó exhibition organized by
Martha Beck, part of ÒSounds,Ó initiated by P.S. 1 gallery; the other
exhibition was ÒScores and Notations,Ó organized by Peter Frank.
Manuscript of solo for piano from Concert
for Piano and Orchestra on exhibit (group exhibition with others) (Johnson,
Tom 1979a; Ratcliff 1980).

December 7-8, 1979. New York, The Kitchen Cednter for
Video, Music and Dance. Ned Sublette performed his arrangement of Cheap Imitation for guitar (1978) in
shared program with music by Jackson Mac Low and La Monte Young.

December 10, 1979. New York, Cooper Union (Third
Avenue at Seventh Street), Great Hall, organized by the Group for Contemporary
Music at Manhattan School of Music, 18th Season. With Charles Wuorinen and John
Rockwell, participated in discussion after a concert with compositions by Tod
Machover, Charles Wuorinen, Gerald Chenoweth and Cage (Third Construction performed by New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
Quartet) (New Yorker 1980;
Rockwell 1979a).

December 13, 1979. Received American Music Center
Letter of Distinction (New York
Times 1979).

Between late December 1979 and February 4, 1980. New
York, Carnegie Recital Hall. New Music Consort performed Third Construction (New
Yorker 1980).

1979-1980. Wrote Writing
for the Fourth Time through Finnegans Wake.

1979-1981. Conceived Montestella dÕIvrea in
collaboration with John Fullemann; it remained unfinished.

1979-1982. Wrote Writing through the Cantos (text).

1980. Wrote White
on Blanco for O.P. (text).

1980. Interviewed by Giacomo Pellicciotti
(Pellicciotti 1981).

January 1-15, 1980. Oakland, California, Crown Point
Press. Visited; continued work on Changes
and Disappearances.

February 22, 1980. Wrote second of two letters to M. William
Karlins (Cage 1981k).

February 28, 1980. New York, Judson Memorial Church,
Garden Room. Read from his own work at memorial service for Jos Rollin de la
Torre Bueno (Aprl 4, 1904-January 15, 1980), his editor at Wesleyan University
Press; other participants were David Vaughan, Patricia N. McAndrew, Nancy
Reynolds, Walter Sorell, Selma Jeanne Cohen; Neely Bruce (piano) and Phyllis
Bruce (soprano) performed Winter Music
and music by Jacques Offenbach and Neely Bruce.

April 22, 1980. Gainesville, Florida, University of
Florida. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company, Event.

April 22-23, 1980. Gainesville, University of Florida.
Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company.

April 27, 1980. New York. Composed Furniture Music Etcetera.

May 13, 1980. Buffalo, New York, State University of
New York at Buffalo, Baird Hall. Yvar Mikhashoff and Aki Takahashi gave first
performance of Furniture Music Etcetera
in a program with other compositions by Cage and Erik Satie; CageÕs attendance
uncertain (Young, K. 1980).

Prior to May 20, 1980. Completed Themes and Variations.

May 20, 1980. New York, Japan House, Lila Acheson
Wallace Auditorium. Performed Themes and
Variations (first complete performance) as part of Dialogue, with Merce Cunningham.

July 14-18, 1980. London, University of London,
GoldsmithsÕ College, Laban Centre for Movement and Dance: invited by Bonnie
Bird, gave series of interdisciplinary workshops with Merce Cunningham;
workshops (July 14-18, Great Hall); lecture ÔMusic for DanceÕ probably by Cage
and concert of his early music (July 15, Great Hall); probably participated in
panel, ÔCollaboration or Co-Existence: Two Approaches to Interdisciplinary Work
in the ArtsÕ (July 17); performed with Merce Cunningham, Themes and Variations as part of Dialogue (July 18, Great Hall) (Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980;
Jordan 1980; Raymond 1980).

August 8-13, 1980. Albuquerque, New Mexico, KUNM radio
station (National Public Radio), lectured on ÔThe Potential of RadioÕ and
creation of a new work (Performing Artservices, probably postponed).

September 14-27, 1980. Oakland, California, Crown
Point Press. Fifth visit; continued work on Changes
and Disappearances and began On the
Surface, completed before or during April 1982 (Singdahlsen 1982, 22).

October 1, 1980. London, Elizabeth Hall. London
Sinfonietta Voices, William Brooks conducting, performed Hymns and Variations in shared program with music by William
Billings and Charles Ives (Griffiths 1980c).

December 3-6, 1980. Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury
College. Residency; performed James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet (December 4, Dana Auditorium);
performed with Merce Cunningham, Dialogue,
during which he worked on Writing
through the Cantos (December 5, Wright Theatre, Middlebury College
Concert Series); interviewed with Merce Cunningham by George Todd and
Dale Cockrell (December 6) (Cage and Cunningham/Todd and Cockrell 1981).

Circa 1981. Wrote [Untitled] (mesostics on ÒSwiftÓ)
[text].

1981. Wrote Apropos
of (Marcel Duchamp 1961) [text].

1981. Visited Montestella dÕIvrea [near Turin] to prepare Montestella
dÕIvrea in collaboration with John Fullemann; it remained unfinished.

Late February 1981. New York, Baldwin Piano Company
store. Performed 4'33" for
production of Hologram of John Cage
by Jason Sapon (Close 1981c).

Prior to March 1981. New York. Interviewed by David Sears
(Sears 1981).

March 14, 1981. New York, New York Times Building,
WQXR Auditorium, presented by Jack Kahn Pianos. Hosted by Joseph Bloom, Grete
Sultan performed from Etudes Australes
[XVII-XXVIII or -XXXII, possibly including first performances]; CageÕs
attendance uncertain.

Early April 1981. London, Ontario, University of
Western Ontario. Interviewed by Jack Behrens (videotaped) (Behrens
1987).

April 10, 1981. In New York.

April 6-May 3, 1981. Minnesota residency with Merce
Cunningham Dance Company (co-sponsored by the presenters: Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis; College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph; St. Cloud University, St.
Cloud; University of Minnesota, Duluth; Northrop Dance Season, Minneapolis);
first presentation of Hologram of John
Cage by Jason Sapon (Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Lobby);
also performed in Landmark Building: presumably Cheap Imitation (broadcast live on radio) (Close 1981c).

May 16-17, 1981. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Arts
& Culture Association, Downtown Cultural Center, 111 Willoughby Street.
Attended A Celebration of John Cage: A Far Out Weekend by Rick Russo and
Company (May 16, evening), including second presentation of Hologram of John Cage by Jason Sapon;
repeated May 17, afternoon (Phoenix
1981).

September 25-26, 1981 (rehearsals began September 24).
Hartford, Connecticut, Real Art Ways (40 State Street), John Cage Festival
(September 1-October 3), funded by the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts, United Technologies Corporation, Connecticut
General Corporation, Knox Foundation, and Meet the Composer. Performed Empty Words with Maryanne Amacher, Close Up, broadcast live via satellite
on National Public Radio (Christ Church, Cathedral House, 45 Church Street);
the festival also featured exhibition of plexigrams, etchings, and lithographs
(September 1-26, Gallery); presentation of films on Cage (various dates and
locations); Paul Zukofsky performed Cheap
Imitation (violin) and from Freeman
Etudes (October 3, University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music, Millard
Auditorium) (Moshell 1981; Tuck 1981).

October 8, 1981. New York. Participated in the One
World Poetry Festival, Amsterdam, De Melkweg [evening, local time], by
performing 21-minute excerpt from Part IV of Empty Words by telephone, answered by Michael Gibbs (Bent 1981).

February 10 (or 11)-12, 1982 (two- or three-day
visit). Tuscaloosa, Alabama, University of Alabama. A University of Alabama
ensemble performed Etcetera; Erik
Satie, two compositions for ensemble; and Christian Wolff, Nines; concluded with open forum; read Composition in Retrospect (February 12, morning) and three other
lectures (Lanier 1982; Roosevelt 1982; Stevenson, T. 1982).

February 25-May 2, 1982. New York, Whitney Museum of
American Art: John Cage: Scores and Prints, one-person exhibition; in
conjunction with the exhibition, S.E.M. Ensemble gave three concerts with music
by Cage (March 31, April 1, and April 2) (Ashbery 1982; Charles 1982).

March 5-7, 1982. Valencia, California, California
Institute of the Arts, CalArts Contemporary Music Festival, directed by Renee
Levine, presented by California Institute of the Arts, School of Music and
University of California at San Diego, Department of Music. Attended, read James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An
Alphabet (March 5, Modular Theatre, CalArts Cafetaria); Jnos Ngyesy
performed Freeman Etudes I-VIII
(March 6, afternoon, Theatre II); panel discussion led by Michael Steinberg
(March 7); performed with Maryanne Amacher, John Payne (electronics) and
graduate students at the University of California at San Diego, CalArts and
University of Southern California, Lecture
on the Weather (March 7, Modular Theatre, Main Gallery); interviewed by David Felder (March 6,
unpublished) (CalArts Today
1982; Herbort 1982b; La Barbara and Rich 1982).

March 12, 1982. Berlin, Gelbe Musik (Schaperstra§e
11). Vernissage of exhibition, ÒA Tribute to John Cage,Ó with scores and video,
Nam June Paik, A Tribute to John Cage;
on March 20, Eberhard Blum performed 45'
for a Speaker.

Prior to or during April 1982. Oakland, California,
Crown Point Press: completed On the
Surface, begun September 1980.

April 2, 1982. New York, Church of St. Paul and St.
Andrew (263 West 86th Street). Attended and introduced ÔAn Evening of John
CageÕ with performances of his music (as well as music by others) in honor of
his 70th birthday given by Gageego and guest artists.

April 3, 1982. Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox
Gallery: attended 70th birthday concert with his music given by S.E.M.
Ensemble; in conjuction with John Cage: Scores and Prints, one-person
exhibition in the museum (Stiller 1982).

May 18, 1982. New York, American Ballet Theatre (890
Broadway). Improvisation III to Duets performed; Cage did not
participate.

May 19, 1982. New York. Conceived [Untitled],
Òhappening sonore.Ó

May 27, 1982. Rotterdam, Schouwburg, Holland Festival.
Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company: Improvisation IV
to Fielding Sixes; Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music to Roadrunners; David Tudor, Phonemes to Channels/Inserts; did not participate in the May 28
performance in Rotterdam, nor in the May 30-31
performances in Amsterdam, Theater Carr (Nieuwpoort 1982; Rietstap 1982).

September 23, 1982. Paris, Thtre du Rond-Point
Renaud-Barrault, Clbration John Cage, under the aegis of Judith Pisar and the
American Center du Boulevard Raspail. Received the certificate of his
appointment as Commandeur de lÕOrdre des Arts et Lettres by the French Minister
of Culture, Jack Lang; audiovisual presentations by Charles Amirkhanian and
Daniel Charles; installation by Nam June Paik; Concerts Colonne [Klner
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester], Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, and David Tudor,
piano, performed The Seasons; Concert for Piano and Orchestra; Dance/4 Orchestras; in conjunction with
evening participated in a concert/debate at the American Center, where he read
from one of the ÒWritings through Finnegans Wake,Ó and attended the
opening of an exhibition, ÒJohn Cage, Graphic Works and Scores,Ó which ran to
October 23 (Cond 1982; Drillon 1982; International
Herald Tribune 1982; Lartigue 1982a; Nouvel Observateur 1982; Samuel 1982).

November 5, 1982. Washington, D.C., National Public
Radio. First broadcast of Fifteen
Domestic Minutes performed by John
Cage (New York), Lisa Simioni (Washington, D.C.), voices, broadcast live via
National Public Radio, Washington; KUSC, Los Angeles, California (CageÕs place
of birth), KSFR, Denver, Colorado (place of birth of CageÕs grandfather); WNYC
(CageÕs place of residence).

November 17, 1982. Washington, D.C., John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, Arts Education Workshops, American Composers
Series, Meet the Composer, lecture/discussion (5:00-9:30 pm) hosted and
moderated by Fred Calland (National Public Radio) prior to evening performance
of his music in the Terrace Theater.

November 19, 1982. Washington, D.C., John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, American Film Institute Theater. AFI Video
Tribute to John Cage, presented by the American Film Institute (evening).

November 20, 1982 (11 am-11pm, announced). New York,
Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street), 5th Anniversary Wall-to-Wall.
Read from his works; also included music by Cage.

November 28, 1982 (late afternoon). Mulhouse, Salle de la
Fraternit. Grard Frmy, Bernard Geyer, Lara Erbes, Evelyne Eibel, Michel
Gaechter and Bernadette Hoffbeck performed A
Book of Music and other music by Cage; Cage in attendance.

March 27-28, 1983. Vancouver, British Columbia
(presented by the Vancouver New Music Society). Gave first performance of Muoyce (March 27, Vancouver East
Cultural Centre) and performed James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet (March 28, Robson Square
Theatre); interviewed by Susan Mertens; A Concert for Cage with Radio Music, The Perilous Night, Telephones
and Birds and Gavin Bryars, JesusÕ
Blood Never Failed Me Yet; CageÕs attendance uncertain (March 26, Western
Front)
(Mertens, S. 1983).

April 1-2, 1983. Miami, Florida, University of Miami,
School of Music, Gusman Concert Hall, Meta-Music Festival. Guest composer; read
Composition in Retrospect and Diary: How
to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued 1973-1982
(April 1, 11:00 am); opening concert with music by Cage and others (April 1, evening);
concerts and events on School of Music campus (April 2, noon-6 pm); read James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An
Alphabet (April 2, evening).

April 8, 1983. Buffalo, New York, State University of
New York, Department of Music, North American New Music Festival 1983
(incorporating the CAN-AM Music Days, April 5-15, organized by Lejaren Hiller,
Yvar Mikhashoff, and Jan Williams). At encounter (afternoon seminar) read Composition in Retrospect, followed by
question period; attended fifty-year retrospective concert including Litany for the Whale performed by Martha
Herr and Jocelyn Alaimo, sopranos (evening [?], Slee Concert Hall); Cage exhibit
(Music Library, Baird Hall) (Swartz 1982-1983).

May 2, 1983. New York, Metropolitan Opera House. Improvisation III to Duets (Cunningham), performed by the
American Ballet Theatre; Cage did not perform.

May 7, 1983. Weston, Massachusetts, Music School at
Rivers (333 Winter Street, now Rivers School Conservatory), Alumni Hall, Fifth
Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young (May 7-8), Richard S.
Robbins, Director. Darryll Rosenberg gave workshop on Sonatas and Interludes; Cage performed Composition in Retrospect (late afternoon).

November 25, 1983 (evening). San Francisco,
California, Davies Symphony Hall (between Van Ness and Franklin, Grove and
Hayes Streets), New and Unusual Music Concert Series, Speaking of Music,
hosted by The Exploratorium and by the San Francisco Symphony. Read from Muoyce; Joseph Kubera, piano, members of
the San Francisco Symphony, John Adams and Barry Jekowsky, conductors,
performed Concert for Piano and Orchestra,
Credo in Us, and First Construction (in Metal); exhibition of lithographs.

Late November 1983. Seattle, Washington. Composed Ryoanji (part for voice).

December 1983.
Began to work with a personal computer, a Compaq 386. Most of the
programs he employed were written by the Canadian composer Andrew Culver (born
August 30, 1953), who had been working as CageÕs assistant since 1981 and who
continued to do so until CageÕs death (Kendall, R. 1990, 95-96; Rossum 1988 [states 1984 as date]).

1983-1984. Conceived HMCIEX.

1984. Made Weather-ed
II.

1984 (probably early). Performed with Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company in Madras and Korea.

January 1, 1984. New York, during TV show, Good
morning, Mr. Orwell! by Nam June Paik, performed Branches with Takehisa Kosugi.

January 1984. New York. Continued Ryoanji (part for flute).

January 19, 1984
(evening). New York, Manhattan School of Music, Hubbard Hall. Isabelle Ganz
(mezzo soprano), Michael Pugliese (percussion) performed Ryoanji; Ganz performed Aria
with Fontana Mix in program with
music by Charles Boone, Eric Ewazen, Leo Smit.

January 24-27, 1984. Taipei, Taiwan, 5th New Aspect International
Arts Festival. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (performances
on January 24 and 26-27, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall); continued work on Ryoanji (part for flute).

August 15, 1984. New Milford, Connecticut, Canterbury
School, Chapel, American Music for Chamber Ensemble (August 13-18, organized by
the Charles Ives Center for American Music, Roxbury, Connecticut). Spoke at
first performance by Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (David Tessmer, flute; James
Wilson, clarinet; Jan Fung, percussion; Beverly Nero, piano; Ray Eichenmuller,
violin; Martin Bernstein, violoncello) of Music
for _, presented as Music for Six.

August 17, 1984. Letter from BL Lacerta, a new music
(non-jazz) improvisation quartet based in Dallas, Texas, eventually leading to Improvisation A + B.

August 26, 1984 (afternoon). New York, Anspacher
Theater [or Public Theater], Joseph PappÕs New Jazz at the Public, New Music
Distribution Service 12th Anniversary Benefit Concert. In shared program with
John Zorn and John Giorno, read Mirage
verbal (Pareles 1984).

October 21, 1984 or earlier. New York, Saint MarkÕs
Church [10th Street and Second Avenue], A Decade of Dance, presented by the
Danspace Project. Performed Dialogue
with Merce Cunningham (Tobias 1984).

October 24, 1984. New York, Carnegie Hall. Attended
performance of Thirty Pieces for String
Quartet by the Kronos Quartet.

November 1, 1984.
Sacramento, California, California State University, Festival of New American
Music. Unknown performers performed Sonata
for Two Voices, possibly first performance.

November 1-4, 1984. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of
Michigan, Percussive Arts Society International Convention [PASIC] 1984, hosted
by Michael Udow. Attended; addressed convention as PAS Hall of Fame Member at
Official PAS Banquet; Percussion Group/Cincinnati with the University of
Michigan Symphony Band performed Renga
with Music for Three in concert with
music by Paul Creston and John Wyre (November 1, evening) (Franois 1987-1988).

Prior to or during November 1984. Wrote Eight Whiskus (text).

November 1984. New York. Wrote Agenku2, Mirakus2 (text),
and Selkus2 (text).

November-November 21, 1984. New York. Composed Eight Whiskus (voice).

November-December 26, 1984. New York. Composed Selkus2 (music).

November-December 29, 1984. New York. Composed Mirakus2 (music).

November 29-30, 1984. Toronto, Ontario, University of
Toronto, Convocation Hall, New Music Concerts, Orchestral Challenges in the
Light. Attended rehearsals (November 29-30) and performance (November 30) of Dance/4 Orchestras by the Professional
Training Program of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Robin Engleman, Robert
Aitken, Paul Zukofsky, Russell Hartenberger conducting, in program with music
by Gilles Tremblay, Roger Reynolds and Wallingford Riegger; various interviews
(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, November 29 and City-TV, November 30);
participated in Composers in Conversation series with Roger Reynolds, Music at
Hart House, Music Room (November 29, evening) (Kraglund 1984; Littler 1984).

Late November or early December 1984. Toronto,
Ontario. Interviewed by Anne Gibson for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Cage/Gibson 1989).

Before December 1984. Interviewed by Bill Shoemaker
(Cage/Shoemaker 1984).

January 13, 1985. San Francisco, California, Museum of
Modern Art. Performed Mushrooms et
Variationes.

January 25, 1985. New York, Alice Tully Hall, Focus! A
World in Transition: The New Music, 1945-1955, organized by the Juilliard
School (January 18-25). Participated in pre-concert roundtable with Milton
Babbitt, David Diamond, Morton Feldman, Vivian Fine, Vincent Persichetti and
William Schuman; Joel Sachs, moderator; Juilliard Orchestra Contemporary Music
Ensemble; Paul Zukofsky, conductor; David Korevaar, piano, performed Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber
Orchestra; concert also featuring works by Luigi Nono, Incontri, and William Schuman, Night
Journey (Hughes, A. 1985).

February 1985. New York. Wrote and composed Sonnekus2 [text, songs].

February 3, 1985. Purchase, New York, State University
of New York, SUNY-College, Performing Arts Center: Philharmonia Virtuosi;
Richard Kapp, conductor; Robert Aitken, bamboo flute, performed Ryoanji; concert also featuring works by
Haydn, Prokofiev, and Rameau.

February 6, 1985. New York, Town Hall. Philharmonia
Virtuosi; Richard Kapp, conductor; Robert Aitken, bamboo flute, performed Ryoanji; concert also featuring works by
Haydn, Prokofiev, and Rameau; Cage presumably in attendance.

February 7, 1985. New York, Carnegie Hall. Performed
at Meredith MonkÕs 20th Anniversary Retrospective Party following her Carnegie
Hall debut.

February 20-23, 1985. Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, Illinois,
University of Illinois. Four-day residency; performed with Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company; Composer Forum with John Cage (February 20, afternoon, Music Building
Auditorium, 1444 West Nevada); performed with Cunningham: Dialogue; University of Illinois New Music ensemble performed music
by Cage (February 20, evening, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,
Foellinger Great Hall); performed (February 22-23, Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts, Colwell Playhouse); dance video showings (Eisenman 1985).

March 26, 1985. New York, Carnegie Recital Hall (154
West 57th Street), 10th Anniversary Season, New Music Consort. As guest
speaker introduced Ryoanji, performed
by New Music Consort (Rachel Rudich, flute; William Trigg, percussion) in
shared program with music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Pierre Boulez, Joan Tower,
Valerie Capers, and David Noon.

March 28, 1985. Wayne, New Jersey, William Paterson
College, Shea Center for the Performing Arts, Wayne Recital Hall, Midday
Artists Series: artist-in-residence; read from his works during two concerts by
the New Jersey New Music Ensemble at WPC and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
at WPC, Raymond DesRoches, director: Amores,
Sonata for Clarinet, Living Room Music, Sixteen Dances, Second
Construction (afternoon and evening); participated in New Music Forum (late
afternoon).

March 28, 1985. New York [?]. Interviewed by Pratt Journal of Architecture
(Cage/Anonymous 1985).

April 16, 1985. New York, Carnegie Recital Hall
(154 West 57th Street), Two Modern Masters: John Cage and Donald Martino.
New York New Music Ensemble (Daniel Druckman, percussion; Jean Kopperud,
clarinet; and Mineko Yajima, violin) gave presumably first performance of Solo
with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions
on the Subjects of the Solo; and perfomed Music for _ [Music for Six]
(New York premire commissioned by the ensemble)in shared program with music by Donald
Martino.

May 14, 1985. New York, Symphony Space (2537
Broadway), New Works for the Contemporary Voice. Joan La Barbara gave first
performance of Eight Whiskus, along
with first performances of music by Rhys Chatham, Roger Reynolds, James Tenney.

July 1985. New York, Museum of Modern Art,
Summergarden, Garden of Harps. Attended. Postcard
from Heaven performed on fifteen harps in concert with music by Charlie
Morrow, Wendy Chambers, and R.I.P. Hayman (Hayman, R.I.P. 1994, 43, 46).

July 14-18, 1985. College Park, Maryland, University of Maryland, Tawes Theatre,
University of Maryland International Piano Festival and Competition, 15th
Anniversary (July 11-20), sponsored by the Maryland Summer Institute for the
Creative and Performing Arts. Participants of the semi-final round gave first
performances of ASLSP; CageÕs
attendance uncertain.

July 6, 1985. Istanbul. Performed with Takehisa
Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Event.

Late July 1985. Barcelona. Performed with Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company. Made drawing for cover of çrtics.

July 25, 1985. Barcelona. Wrote [Untitled], mesostic
on ÔArticsÕ [text].

Prior to August 1985. Interviewed by Jay Murphy
(Cage/Murphy 1985).

August 1985. New York. Composed But
What about the NoiseÉ and Ryoanji (part for trombone); wrote Sculpture musicale.

August 24, 1985. Oneonta, New York, Catskill
Conservatory, West Kortright Centre. Attended and introduced performances of Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two
Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo by
Carleton Clay, trumpet, Robin Seletsky and Timothy Perry, clarinets; Aria by Meredith Monk; Litany for the Whale by Mary-Anne Ross
and Janet England (Crutchfield 1985; Nilsson 1985).

October 24, 1985. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art
Center, Auditorium. With Zeitgeist performed Music for Five as vocalist twice; interviewed by Steven A. Kvaal; The Perilous Night presumably also
performed (Cage/Kvaal 1985).

November 1985. Interviewed by Anne Gibson for Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation (Cage/Gibson 1989).

November 4, 1985. New York, Carnegie Recital Hall:
with Charles Wuorinen and Elliott Carter, guest composer at concert of New
Music Consort; Music for Five
performed (Cage 1985k).

November 13-December 1, 1985. New York, Henry Street
Settlement, Harry De Jur Playhouse: with others provided backdrops for a
production of Aaron CoplandÕs opera The
Second Hurricane (libretto Edwin Denby).

November 16, 1985 or earlier. New York. Interviewed by
Jon Healey (Healey 1985).

November 19-20, 1985. Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
University of North Carolina, North Carolina School of the Arts: attended;
discussions and informal performances with students, performed ÔCBC interview
with Anne GibsonÕ with Elizabeth Nunn (November 19, afternoon, School of Music,
Gray Building, Recital Hall); attended Fall Dance Concert (November 19, Agnes
deMille Theatre); discussion with visual arts students (November 20, Visual
Arts area); discussion-interview-performance in Performance Hour (November 20,
Crawford Hall); with design and production crew rehearsed and performed
ÔInter-ViewÕ (first part consisted of a re-enactment of a 1983 interview by two
students [Sean Bronzell and Ann Suchonski] at Knox College as though they were
interviewing him live, followed by a complete playback of the earlier
interview; middle part of the playback of a tape recording of h2 WDR; third and final part of a recent
taped interview by Cage with Bronzell and Suchonski) (November 20, evening,
Stevens Center, Joan Hanes Theatre) (Boul 1985; Healey 1985; Trotter 1985a;
Trotter 1985b).

November 21, 1985 (morning). Traveled to Los Angeles,
California.

November 25, 1985. New York, Joyce Theater, A Tribute
to Julian Beck. Contributed.

November 30-December 6, 1985. New York, Joyce
Theater. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Events; Cage presumably did not participate.

December 1985. New York. Composed Etcetera
2/4 Orchestras. Wrote They
Come [text].

December 1-2, 1985. Washington, D.C., Embassy of
France, Maison Franaise, Cross Currents Festival, The Vocal Music of John
Cage: attended and performed A Brief
Meeting of the Satie Society with Marilyn Boyd DeReggi and the DeReggi
InterArt Ensemble, preceded by a lecture, ÔReflections on John CageÕ, by
Jillian Anderson, and followed by a discussion.

December 15, 1985 (early evening). Toronto, Ontario,
New Music Concerts, Premiere Dance Theatre (Harbourfront), Re-Tuning. Guest
composer. Presented Inter-View; Postcard from Heaven (with six harps)
performed in shared program with music by James Tenney and Ben Johnston.

December 18, 1985. New York, New York Studio School, An
Evening With John Cage and Morton Feldman: Bowery Ensemble (Barbara Held,
flute; Leonard Krech, trombone; Michael Pugliese, percussion; Nils Vigeland,
piano) performed Music for Four and
Morton Feldman, Why Patterns?; Cage
presumably in attendance.

1986. Brooklyn, New York, City University of New York,
Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, Center for Computer Music: as guest
composer, [invited by Charles Dodge], completed realization of Essay, begun in 19??, with the
assistance of Victor Friedberg, Frances White and Kenneth Worthy.

April 13, 1986 (late afternoon-evening). Buffalo, New
York, State University of New York, Hallwalls Gallery (700 Main Street), North
American New Music Festival (April 10-20), presented by Department of Music,
The International Piano Tango Marathon. Yvar Mikhashoff performed selected
premieres from a collection of tangos requested by him and possibly including Perpetual Tango.

April 15, 1986.
Buffalo, New York, State University of New York, Department of Music. Jan
Williams and others gave first performance of But What about the Noise
(repeated April 26, 1986, Oneonta, New York, Henry Cowell Festival).

April 16, 1986. New York, Mannes College of Music,
Mannes Concert Hall, Mannes Contemporary Music Festival (April 15-16): guest
composer with Wendy Chambers; attended and introduced performances of Music for Five by the Mannes
Contemporary Ensemble (soprano, cello, trombone, flute, piano) and of Third
Construction by the Mannes Percussion Ensemble.

April 21, 1986. New York, Diane Brown Gallery (100
Greene Street), Mondays at Diane Brown, produced by S.E.M. Ensemble, supported
in part by Meet the Composer. Performed Mushrooms
et Variationes (two performances, at 8 pm and at 10 pm) (Holden 1986).

April 24-27, 1986. Oneonta, New York, State University of
New York, Catskill Conservatory and Hartwick College, The Musical World of
Henry Cowell: Festival and Conference. Possibly participated in one or both
informal discussions, ÒRemembering the Man,Ó with friends, colleagues,
ex-students, and Sidney Cowell (April 24 [early evening] and April 27
[morning], Morris Conference Center Lounge).

June 8, 1986 (afternoon). Coney Island, New York,
Museum-Theater [Boardwalk at West 12 Street], Sideshows By The Seashore, John
Cage Meets Sun Ra, benefit for Meltdown Records: invited by Rick Russo,
performed from Part IV of Empty Words
in concert with Sun Ra (Brown, Ke. 1986; Mandel 1986; New York Times 1986).

October 25, 1986. Venice, Biennale. [Electronic?] music by
Cage performed; Cage presumably not in attendance.

November 8, 1986. Munich, Gasteig, Black Box,
Klang-Aktionen Õ86. Marianne Schroeder performed ASLSP; Gabrielle Emde performed Postcard
from Heaven; Jim Fulkerson and Robyn Schulkowsky performed Ryoanji; Schroeder and Schulkowsky
performed Music for Two; David Tudor
performed Tudor, Line and Cluster;
Cage not in attendance.

November 16, 1986. Strassburg, Palais de la Musique et des
Congrs, Salle Erasme, Centenaire de Jean Arp, Hommage  Arp. Les Percussions
de Strasbourg gave first official performance of But What about the NoiseÉ in program with She Is Asleep (Quartet), First
Construction (in Metal); piano music by Virgil Thomson performed by Andre
Plaine; poetry by Jean Arp recited by Michael Lonsdale; music by Gerald Busby
performed by Les Percussions with Franoise Kubler (soprano), Jean-Philippe
Marlire (baritone), Olivier Dejours (conductor) (Dernires Nouvelles dÕAlsace 1986; M. M.
1986).

November 30, 1986. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Painted
Bride Art Center. Percussion Group of Cincinnati performed music by Cage.

January 13, 1987, late afternoon. San Francisco,
California, Crown Point Press (871 Folsom Street). With Robert Hudson attended
vernissage of exhibition, John Cage: Recent Etchings and Monotypes; Robert
Hudson, New Releases (January 13-March 14).

January 15-18, 1987. Dsseldorf, Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grosse Austellungshalle, Konzert-Performance-Ritual. Five
concerts, including recital by Marianne Schroeder with music by Cage and Erik
Satie (January 17).

February 10, 1987. New York, Grace Church (802
Broadway at 10th Street). Brian Schober in organ recital performed ASLSP in organ version, as well as music
by Olivier Messiaen, William Albright, Jehan Alain and Brian Schober.

February 25, 1987. New York, Manhattan School of Music
(122nd Street and Broadway), John C. Borden Auditorium, Tribute to Paul Price.
Special guest in concert by the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Claire Heldrich,
director, including Double Music in
progranm shared with music by Richard Trythall, Lou Harrison, Lukas Foss, and
Frank Zappa.

March 3-15, 1987. New York, City Center Theater (55th Street).
Merce Cunningham Dance Company performances; Cage presumably did not
participate.

March 5-8, 1987. New York, City Center (55th Street),
Merce Cunningham Dance Studios (Westbeth), New York University, Tisch School of
the Arts (2nd Avenue at 6th Street), State University of New York, Fashion
Institute of Technology (27th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues), presented by
the State University of New York, Merce Cunningham and the New Dance: The
Modernist Impulse in Dance, Festival with Symposia; Cage not in attendance.

March 10-31, 1987. Presumably in Frankfurt for
preparation of Europeras 1 & 2.

June 3, 1987. New York (evening). Grand Tour of Grand
Central Terminal followed by Supper at the Oyster Bar with special guest Merce
Cunningham to benefit Grand Central Dances, presented by Dancing in the
Streets.

June 5, 1987, morning. New York, John Dewey High School
(50 Avenue X, Brooklyn), Room A-1, New Music at John Dewey High School. A
Session with John Cage. Attended. John Dewey High School Wind Ensemble, with
S.E.M. Ensemble guest musicians and Dora Ohrenstein, voice, simultaneously
performed Aria; Solos from Concert for Piano and Orchestra; Atlas Eclipticalis.

June 26, 1987. Nottingham, Music Studio, New Music at
Nottingham (June 22-26). Jane McDouall (soprano) and Frank Denyer performed Ryoanji; James Fulkerson with the
University of Nottingham John Cage Seminar Ensemble performed Song Books; Madelaine Bird (flute),
Frank Denyer (piano), Tristan Honsinger (violoncello) and James Fulkerson
(trombone) performed Music for Four.

September 28, 1987. Storrs, Connecticut, University of
Connecticut, School of Fine Arts, Music Department, Von der Mehden Recital
Hall, Music at UConn. Robert Black gave preview performance of c
C/omposed Improvisation, in program shared with music by Jon Deak,
Lawrence Dillon, Hans Werner Henze, James Sellars, and Iannis Xenakis.

October 2, 1987. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Port of
History Museum, Ninth Annual New Music America Festival. Opening concert
featured music by Cage (Ear 1987).

October 2-3, 1987. St. JohnÕs, Memorial University of
Newfoundland. Cage 75th birthday celebration with student concerts of his
music; Cage not in attendance (Behrens 1987).

October 6, 1987. California, Pennsylvania, California
University of Pennsylvania, Reed Arts Center, Reed Arts Center Recital Series.
Robert Black gave world premiere of c C/omposed Improvisation, in
program shared with music by Robert Black, James Sellars, Stuart Smith, Reynold
Weidenaar, Christian Wolff, and Iannis Xenakis.

October 9-10, 1987. New York, Grand Central Terminal, Main
Concourse, ÔGrand Central DancesÕ, presented by Dancing in the Streets. Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company and Lucinda Childs Dance Company performed; CageÕs
participation or attendance uncertain.

November 17, 1987. Munich, Kulturzentrum am Gasteig,
Carl-Orff-Saal. Performed What You SayÉ
in shared program with David Tudor, performing ÒSolo for PianoÓ from Concert for Piano and Orchestra and
Tudor, Web for John Cage II; music by
Josef Anton Riedl and others; question period; interviewed by Peter Michael
Hamel (Cage/Hamel 1988; H.L. 1987; Rei§inger 1987b; Schulz 1988).

November 22, 1987 (afternoon). New York, Brooklyn Academy
of Music, Carey Playhouse, Next Wave Festival, Happy Birthday Meredith,
orgazined by the House Foundation for the Arts. Performance by Meredith Monk
and Vocal Ensemble followed by birthday party for Monk; Cage, although not in
attendance, was member of the 1987 Honorary Committee and with others provided
recipes for Òspecial desserts.Ó

1988-1989. Appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of
Poetry at Harvard University for the academic year 1988-1989.

January 1988. New York. Composed Five.

January 12, 1988. New York, United Nations Building,
DelegatesÕ Dining Rooms (First Avenue and 45th Street), musicale, preview of
the First New York International Festival of the Arts (June 11-July 11) and reception.
Presumably attended; Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed at the festival.

January 15, 1988 (afternoon). Rochester, New York,
University of Rochester, Rochester Conference, Will You Be On Time (January
10-17). With David Epstein participated in panel, Time and Music. Presumably
read (from) Time (Three Autokus)
(text).

March 14, 1988. Buffalo, New York, State University of New
York, Depertment of Music, North American New Music Festival (March 10-19).
Performed Anarchy; concert, ÒJohn
Cage and Friends,Ó with music by Cage, Josef Matthias Hauer, and Giacinto
Scelsi.

March 21, 1988. New York, Symphony Space (95th and
Broadway). Guest composer at performance of Third
Construction given by New Music ConsortÕs Pulse Percussion Ensemble and
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble in shared program with music by Charles Wuorinen,
David Olan, and Dan Levitan (originally scheduled for February 4, 1988).

March 27-30, 1988. Albuquerque, New Mexico, University
of New Mexico, College of Fine Arts, Department of Music, 16th Annual
ComposerÕs Symposium. Attended and participated; rehearsed his music (March
29-20, afternoon, Keller Hall); Christopher Shultis gave lecture (March 28,
morning, B-117); panel discussion with William Hill, Istvn Lng, John Donald
Robb, Robert Suderburg on ÔImportant Trends in American Music of the 20th
CenturyÕ (March 30, morning, Fine Arts Center, B-120); ask the composer (March
30, afternoon, Fine arts Center, B-117); three-hour retrospective concert of
his music: UNM Symphony Orchestra and Christopher Shultis (conductor) performed
Atlas Eclipticalis; Dawn Chambers
performed Water Music; UNM Percussion
Ensemble performed Quartet and Credo in Us; Kathy Clawson (voice) and
Dick Orr (electronics) performed selections from Song Books; Christopher Shultis performed Child of Tree; various students performed Variations III, Speech 1955
and Fontana Mix (tape realization by
Jerome Maes and Robert See) (March 30, evening, Fine Arts Center, Popejoy Hall
Lobby [Atlas at the beginning and Variations at the end] and continued in
Keller Hall) (College of Fine Arts
1988).

April 12, 1988. Kansas City, Missouri, All Souls Unitarian
Church (4500 Warwick Boulevard). Performed James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet; followed by a reception
(Kansas City Art Institute, Epperson Auditorium) to open the Kansas City American
Arts Festival (April 12-24).

April 24, 1988 (afternoon). Purchase, New York, State
University of New York, Neuberger Museum, Seventh Helen and Leonard Yaseen
Lectures. Performed Time (Three Autokus).

June 16, 1988. New York, Henry Lindenbaum Center (270 West
89th Street), basement theater. Guest speaker (with Jane Dudley and Lou
Harrison) at a Gala Benefit Evening for the Jean Erdman Video Project,
presented by The Open Eye: New Stagings, hosted by William Como. Jean Erdman
gave choreographerÕs message; choreographies by Erdman were danced by Nancy
Allison, Leslie Dillingham, and Dianne Howarth, music performed by Jerry Benton
(piano), Maura Ellyn (voice), Elizabeth Brown (flute): Passage (music Otto Janowitz), Ophelia
(music by Cage), Creature on a Journey
(music by Lou Harrison, presented as a recording made by Cage, Merce
Cunningham, and Doris Halpern), Hamadryad
(music by Claude Debussy), and Daughters
of the Lonesome Isle (music by Cage) (Jowitt 1988a).

June 16, 1988.
Berlin, Freie Volksbhne. Michael Pugliese, clay pots and tapes; David Tudor,
live electronics, gave first partial performance of Five Stone Wind, presented as Five
Stone to Merce CunninghamÕs dance of the same title (Schmidt, J. 1988).

July 9-10, 1988.
New York, The Plaza, World Financial Center [or Battery Park City], First New
York International Festival of the Arts (June 11-July 11). First complete (preview) performances of Five Stone Wind to Merce CunninghamÕs
dance of the same title (Vaughan 1997, 241, 300).

July 21-August 26, 1988. New York. Wrote Bolivia Mix [text].

July 22-23, 1988. Putney, Vermont, Yellow Barn Music
Festival. Lectured (July 22, Yellow Barn); attended first performances of Twenty-Three given by the festivalÕs
participants (July 22-23, Yellow Barn); Grete Sultan performed from Etudes Australes; in conjunction
with CageÕs residency Anthony Rauche gave a mini-course, ÒThe Revolutionary
Work of John Cage in Twentieth-Century MusicÓ at Norwich University in Putney
(July 7 and 22).

October 19, 1988, late afternoon. Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Harvard University, Music Department, John Knowles Paine Concert
Hall. Gave first of six seminars in conjunction with the Charles Eliot Norton
Lectures (Swed 1988c).

November 2, 1988, late afternoon. Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Gave second of six
seminars in conjunction with the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (Swed 1988c).

November 6, 1988 (evening). Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University, Sanders Theatre, presented by Fromm Music Foundation at
Harvard. Attended performance of Music
for __, presented as Music for Nine,
given by Boston Musica Viva in shared program with music by Earle Brown,
Christian Wolff, and Morton Feldman.

November 7, 1988. New York, Weill Recital Hall, Week of Italian
Music in New York. Attended concert with performance of Two in shared program; performers
unknown (Rockwell 1988b).

November 9, 1988. New York, Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Square). Performed Anarchy.

November 13, 1988 (evening). Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Group for New Music at
Harvard performed music of Cage, John Clement Adams, Mel Powell, Eric Sawyer,
John Armstrong, and Robert Kyr.

November 28, 1988. Returned to New York via Frankfurt am
Main and Paris.

December 2-10, 1988. Miami, Florida, New Music
America-Miami Festival, organized by New Music Alliance, Joseph Celli and Mary
Luft. Attended; participated
in afternoon panel, ÒRegarding Morton,Ó in tribute to Morton Feldman with Renee
Levine, Jan Williams and others; read from Radio
Happenings (December 6, afternoon, Miami-Dade Community College/Wolfson
Campus, Building 1, 4th floor Terrace, 300 N.E. Second Avenue, 1st
International Music Critics Conference Panel); attended performance on clay pots by Michael Pugliese of Five Stone Wind as Five Stone Solo (announced as world premiere) in program with first
performances by Relache (Philadelphia) of Critical
Band by James Tenney (1934-2006) and music by John King and Mary Ellen
Childs [possibly substituted by Tenney] (choreography Robert Kovich) (December
6, evening, Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, 174 East Flagler
Street) (Cage 1991e; Friedman,
Sydney 1989; Gronemeyer 1989b).

January 26, 1989. New York, Symphony Space. Guest composer
(with Glen Velez, Ge Gan-ru, Bright Sheng, and George Crumb) in New Music
Consort performance of Double Music
in shared program with music by Ge Gan-ru, Glen Velez, George Crumb, and Bright
Sheng.

April 6-8 and 11, 1989 (April 7 afternoon). Boston,
Massachusetts, Symphony Hall. Boston Symphony Orchestra, One Hundred and Eight
Season 1988-1989, Seiji Ozawa, director, gave first performances of 1O1 in shared program with music by
Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky (Dyer 1988a; Dyer 1989d; Tommasini 1989).

April 10, 1989. New York, Kathryn Bache Miller Theater
(Broadway and 116th Street), Columbia University Music Uptown Series. Boston
Musica Viva performed Seven in shared
program with music by Lou Harrison, Vivian Fine, John Huggler, Olly Wilson, and
Steven Stucky; CageÕs attendance uncertain.

April 10, 1989. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard
University, Sanders Theatre, presented by the Adams House Music Society and the
Harvard Department of Music. Song Books
performed, Louise Cloutier, director, with other works by Cage (Dyer
1989b).

April 12, 1989, late afternoon. Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Harvard University, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Gave fifth
of six seminars in conjunction with the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.

April 12-13, 1989. New York, Carnegie Hall. Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, coaching, performed 1O1 in shared program with music by Claude Debussy and Igor
Stravinsky; Cage in attendance (at least April 12) (Dyer 1989f [reflecting on
CageÕs and Stephen DruryÕs activities throughout the season]; Henahan 1989;
Wechsler 1989).

May 17, 1989 (afternoon). New York, American Academy
and Institute of Arts and Letters, Auditorium (632 West 156th Street). Attended
Ceremonial Program. With Jasper Johns, induced by Mary McCarthy as new Academy
Member.

May 17-June 11, 1989. New York, American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters, Art Galleries, South Gallery (Audubon Terrace,
Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets): exhibition of work by newly elected
members and recipients of awards (with others): various manuscripts, books,
photograph.

May 19, 1989. New York. Interviewed by Mitch Corber
and Arleen Schloss (Cage/Corber and Schloss 1990).

June 8, 1989. Roanoke, Virginia, Center in the Square:
attended "A Day with John Cage"; performances of his music by
Victoria Bond and Roanoke Symphony String Quartet, read from Indeterminacy (Mill Mountain Theater);
reception in conjunction with exhibition of New
River Watercolors (Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, May 13-July 16) (DeBell
1989).

July 23, 1989,
Arles, Thtre Antique, Festival of Arles. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company
and musicians gave preview performance without decor of Sculptures musicales to Inventions;
Cage presumably not in attendance.

November 2-4, 1989. Montral, Qubec, Galerie Graff.
Invited by Pierre Ayot and the Matrise en arts plastiques de lÕUniversit du Qubec
 Montral (UQAM), in collaboration with the Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur
(Guy Soucie, director), visited; exhibition of visual works; Robert Lonard
performed Credo in Us as a dance
performance with members of the GAM87; wrote Canada, November 1989, Montreal (November 3); interviewed by Gilles
Daignault (FM de Radio-Canada) and George Nicholson (November 4, for the
Socit Radio-Canada) (Cage/Nicholson
1997; Rivest 1997b).

November 10, 1989. Kyoto, Kyoto International
Conference Hall (Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku), organized by the Inamori Foundation.
Laureate of the Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences in the field of
music (45 million yen, the equivalent of $380.000) in a medal ceremony; as
Kyoto Prize Lecture read ÒAn Autobiographical StatementÓ (Dalton 1989).

November 14, 1989. Nagoya, Bijutsukan. Gave first
performance of One3.

February 12, 1990. New York, Manhattan School of Music
(Broadway and 122nd Street), Borden Auditorium. Guest composer in concert by
the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, performing Third Construction and music by other composers.

February 16-17, 1990. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State
University (30 West 15th Avenue), Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Mershon
Auditorium. In conjunction with the opening of the Wexner CenterÕs inaugural
exhibition, Art in Europe and America: The 1950s and 60s, Merce Cunningham
Dance company performed; CageÕs participation or attendance uncertain.

February 18, 1990. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art
Center, Auditorium. Leo Castelli and John Cage: Two Perspectives on Jasper
Johns (3 pm); Margaret Leng Tan performed In
the Name of the Holocaust, music by Henry Cowell and One2 (7 pm); Cage presumably in attendance.

December 4, 1990. New York, Symphony Space (2537 Broadway
at 95th Street), Face the Music. Performed from Empty Words; performances by Dean Drummond, zoomoozophone, and
Stefani Starin, flute, Haikai;
Stefani Starin and Stephen Drury performed Two;
4'33" performed; conversation
with Allan Miller; question period (annoucement; program may have been subject
to change) (Moore, P. 1991).

December 5, 1990, and several days after. New York.
Interviewed by Barbara Basting; she also interviewed Don Gillespie, Paul
Sadowski, Paul Zukofsky (Basting 1991).

December 8, 1990-January 19, 1991. New York, Sandra
Gering Gallery (14 West 11th Street), exhibition, William Anastasi, Dove
Bradshaw, John Cage, Tom Marioni, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Tobey. Cage is
represented by one print from Signals
and six drawings from Where R = Ryoanji;
interviewed by Richard Kostelanetz for the catalog (Cage/Kostelanetz
1990-1991).

Late 1990. Made [untitled] drawing for announcement of
exhibition and installation in the Espai Poblenou in Barcelona, January
16-late April 1991.